Woman guard: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman wearing a traditional bearskin cap, often associated with the sentries stationed at royal residences. This specific version features a medium skin tone.
Usage Context
Used to denote British royalty, travel to London, or formal security personnel. It is frequently sent alongside ๐ฌ๐ง to signify a trip to the UK or in jokes about standing perfectly still. The emoji is a gendered variant of the standard guard, created to offer more inclusive representation in professional roles.
History
While the guard emoji has been part of the standard since the early days of emoji adoption, the option to specify gender and skin tone was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a major push to diversify the human character library.
Details
Glyph
๐๐ฝโโ
Unicode
U+1F482 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f482_1f3fd_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-role
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.